Our Editor

Matthew Pinsker teaches courses in U.S. political, legal and diplomatic history. His research focuses on the career of Abraham Lincoln, partisanship in the Civil War era, American constitutionalism, the Underground Railroad and the history of U.S. campaigns and elections. Pinsker is the co-director of the House Divided project.

Our Correspondents

Guest Columnists

Fergus Bordewich is the author of Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement (2005) and Washington: How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation’s Capital (2008).

Rob Hardy is a writer and research associate in classics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Kate Larson is the author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003) and The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (2008).

Previous Correspondents

John Osborne teaching interests center on British and modern European history and historical methodology. Present research interests are in public history and the preservation and access of resources and analysis using the World Wide Web. Osborne is the co-director of the House Divided project.

Don Sailer graduated from Dickinson College as an American history major. His research interests include the Upper South during the secession crisis. Sailer is the assistant director of the House Divided project.